Marked for Sassá
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Jihlava
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Adam Pešek runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Slovacko, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pavel Soukup, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A season on the outside for Edimar
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Jihlava has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Jihlava
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match28 Sep 2026
Jihlava are in real trouble now
Position 15, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Sassá runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match26 Sep 2026
Teplice left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sassá still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Jihlava would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.79 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Jihlava
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Pavel Soukup
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Ondřej Bleha joins from Pribram in a deal worth $140.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Sparta Prague, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sassá gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sassá still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Jihlava would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Jihlava bow out of the cup
Sparta Prague go through and Jihlava go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Adam Pešek
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Jihlava's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jihlava has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marvis Ogiomade was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pavel Soukup gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Adrián Čermák
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Tyrese Omotoye has his answer from Jihlava; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The one thing Nicolás Luján could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.